Most of information and all of the photographs have been
provided by Jill Silvester from Australia. Jill's husband is a direct descendant
of Margaret Vingoe and it is his line that we will follow here.

Henry Trembath

Henry was baptised at the Parish church in Zennor on the south western tip
of Britain on the 23rd of May 1816. He was the son of Henry and Jane Trembath (nee Nicholas) and the
area he lived during his life in Cornwall is shown on the map above. If
you were to wander around this area today you would be forgiven for
thinking that Henry senior must have worked in agriculture. But a different lanscape
would have greeted your eyes in the 1816' for mining was the main employer and
the noise of the Tin stamps pounding the ore was deafening.

In Zennor parish where Henry was born, the local mines, some
with romantic sounding names were:-

At the time of his birth it was said that Zennor men were
untireable and even those who worked the fields would also find time to hunt for
traces of tin lodes in the rocks. These when discovered, they worked singly or
in small parties, satisfied with little profit for an enormous amount of
effort.

Sometimes a man would take a stint on a mine in one of the other
parishes, and the whole family would work it in pairs each staying underground
for two or three days and then returning home whilst another family pair would then replace them and thus some respite was obtained
from the heavy toil underground. But Henry and Jane with their young baby were
just starting out and they seemed to have moved down the coast to the edge of
Morvah parish and it is here that the next of their children Jenifer was
baptised in 1823. A further three children Joanna (1826), William (1829)
and Mary (1830) were born to the couple and all were baptised at Madron church. Little is known of the family at this time but the map
above shows the area where they were living.

We next catch up with the family at the time of Henry's marriage
to Margaret Vingoe.

Margaret Vingoe.

Margaret comes from what we choose to call the St Just Line of
Vingoe's. This line can be traced back to the beginning of the 17th century
when John Vingoe of Sennen married Joan Nicholls. You can follow the line
down to Margaret on the Tree . We
will continue our story with Margaret who is about to marry Henry Trembath on December the 11th 1841
at Madron, in Cornwall. In the 1840's if a couple wished to marry in church then
is was the norm to marry in the parish where the bride lived. To do otherwise
would mean paying for a license which to a miners family was expensive. In the
case of Margaret, the Census taken in 1841 shows her as living at Escalls in the
parish of Sennen with her father (Stephen) and Mother (Jane). By December of the
same year she was living in Madron Parish as that is where they wed and they did
not marry by licence.

When it came to baptisms then in most cases it was the norm to go to the nearest
church. Margaret and Henry's first three children were baptised at Morvah,
but following the death of Michael their third child, (who was buried in Morvah
),
they walked over the fields to Sancreed on the 28th of May in 1846 for the baptisms of
the forth child who they also named Michael. On their way either to or
from the church they may have called at the local holy well in the hope
that a dip in the water would ward off the disease that took their last child. Even today people still visit the well
some leaving behind a piece of cloth tied to the branches of the overhanging tree. It
is said that as this rots so the persons health will improve.

Sancreed
Church
& Sancreed Well

Their last child John was also baptised in the church at
Sancreed.. A look at the map shows that they may have been living in the area where the four
parishes of Morvah, Madron, Sancreed and at the time St Just met. Pendeen not
becoming a parish until 1845 with its church being opened in 1854.

Michael Trembath

Our next step along this line is to follow the second Michael
born 1846, who grew up around

MICHAEL
WAS BORN IN MADRON CORNWALL ENGLAND IN 1842. HE WAS CHRISTENED ON 28/05/1842.
HIS FATHER WAS HENRY TREMBATH AND HIS MOTHER MARGARET VINGOE.

HE
IMMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA IN SEPTEMBER ,1867 ABOARD THE SHIP”JOHN TEMERLEY”

Walhalla is
a small, beautifully-preserved historic town in the Baw Baw Ranges in Victoria,
in the south-eastern corner of Australia. Only a handful of permanent residents
live there today, but in the last decades of the 19th century, it was the heart
of one of the richest gold mining districts in the world.

The alluvial workings of
Stringer's Creek in the remote mountains of Gippsland, Victoria, grew into the
busy mining town

WALHALLA
IS A HISTORICAL TOWN NESTLED IN THE HILLS NORTH OF MOE.

WALHALLA
WAS DISCOVERED IN 1862 BY MR STRINGER AND HIS PARTY. THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR
GOLD IN THE HEAVILY TIMBERED HILLS AROUND SEATON AND MOE. THE AREA THEY FOUND
WAS LATER NAMED MAIDENTOWN.

CONDITIONS
IN WALHALLA IN THE EARLY DAYS WERE TRYING. THE VALLEY WAS HEAVILY TIMBERED AND
VERY NARROW.THE EARLY PIONEERS
LIVED IN TENTS ALONG THE BANKS OF THE CREEK.

BY
1900 WALHALLA HAD GROWN INTO A MINING TOWN WITH A POPULATION OF 3000 PEOPLE.THE PEOPLE BUILT THEIR HOUSES WHEREVER THERE WAS ROOM FOR A SMALL HOME.
THERE WAS NO ELECTRICITY AND HOMES WERE LIT BY KEROSENE LAMPS AND CANDLES.

MOST
OF THE SHOPS WERE BUILT ALONG THE CREEK ON A NARROW STRIP OF FLAT LAND.

The
Long Tunnel Extended Mine, which operated between 1871 and 1911, was the most
successful goldmine in Victoria and one of Australia's richest, with 13.7 tonnes
of gold being extracted over the years. The mine covered ten hectares and
consisted of 9 km of underground passages to a depth of 1000 metres.

THERE
WERE EIGHT HOTELS , THREE BAKERIES AND ONE SCHOOL.THE RAILWAY LINE WAS SURVEYED
IN 1907 AND COMPLETED IN 1910.

GOLD
SUPPLIES HAD DWINDLED BY 1912 AND THE TOWN SUFFERED A STEADY DECLINE AND MOST
PEOPLE HAD LEFT WALHALLA BY THE FORTIES.

WALHALLA
TODAY IS A TOP TOURIST ATTRACTION AND RECENTLY ELECTRICITY WAS PUT ONTO THE TOWN
AND THE RAILWAY IS NEARING COMPLETION.

HER
FATHER DIED WHEN ELIZABETH WAS ABOUT 2 YEARS OLD AND HER MOTHER REMARRIED HUGH
LORD MCKAY ON JANUARY 27TH 1855 IN RICHMOND NEW SOUTH WALES
AUSTRALIA.

ELIZABETH
NOY (DODD) AND HUGH HAD 6 CHILDREN.

ELIZABETH
DIED IN WALHALLA ON 17/04/1892 AND IS BURIED IN WALHALLA.

ELIZABETH
AND MICHAEL HAD 4 CHILDREN

JAMES
BORN 28/03/1878

ELIZABETH
BORN 02/02/1873

WILLIAM
HENRYBORN 31/07/1874

EMILY
BORN 07/05/1882

JAMES
TREMBATH

JAMES WAS
BORN ON 28/03/1878 IN WALHALLA TO MICHAEL AND ELIZABETH TREMBATH.

HE WAS THE THIRD OF FOUR CHILDREN .
HE HAD A BROTHERWILLIAM HENRY ANDSISTERS ELIZABETH AND EMILY.

JAMES
GREW UP IN WALHALLA.

HIS
HOBBIES INCLUDED FOOTBALL.

JAMES
MARRIED FANNY JENKIN IN 1902 AND THEY HAD TWO
SONS, LESLIE AND NORMAN.

JAMESAND FANNY LIVED IN MAIDEN TOWN AND IN 1904,FANNY GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD WHO DIED EITHER AT BIRTH OR SOON AFTER.

ON
09.03.1905A SON,LESLIE ALFRED JAMES WAS BORN, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER SONNORMAN ERNEST IN 1907.

James
with son Leslie, Fanny Trembath holding son Norman, Aunt Emmie ( William and
James’s sister) William is standing at head of steps, below is his wife Maria
,young boy on steps is William ,son of William, and his sister Freda is seated
to right. Young girls standing on step are Ethel and Floss Friend.Elizabeth Friend (Trembath)(James and William’s sister )

ON
THE 16TH MAY 1909FANNY
DIED AT THE AGE OF 32.SHE WAS
BURIED AT THE WALHALLA CEMETERY ON 18TH MAY 1909.

HER
GRAVE STONE READS

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF

FANNY

BELOVED
WIFE OF

JAMES
TREMBATH

WHO
DIED 16TH MAY 1909

AGED
32 YEARS

ASLEEP
IN JESUS, OH HOW SWEET TO BE FOR

SUCH
A SLUMBER MEET

WITH
HOLY CONFIDENCE TO SING THAT DEATH

HAS
LOST ITS PAINFUL STING

ASLEEP
IN JESUS, PEACEFUL REST WHOSE

WAKING
IS SUPREMELY BLEST

NOFEAR. NO WOE SHALL DIM THAT HOUR

THAT
MANIFESTS THE SAVIOURS POWER

Three
years after Fanny's death James
marriedLAVINIA MARYMITCHELL.

LAVINIA WAS
BORN ON 10.05.1885 TO JOHN AND DORETTA MITCHELL.

SHE MARRIED JAMESON 5.06.1912IN WALHALLA.

where SHE WASKNOWN
TO EVERYONE AS ‘NINNY’.

JAMES
AND LAVINIA TREMBATH ON THEIR WEDDING DAY JUNE 5TH 1912 AT ROSEDALE
IN VICTORIA AUSTRALIA.

JAMES
AND LAVINIA HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS, EVELYNMAY
, DORIS EMILY, BERYL AND THELMA.

DORIS,
BERYL, EVELYN,NINNY, THELMA AND LESLIE

JAMES
AND HIS BROTHER WILLIAM OPERATED THE CORNER STORE IN WALHALLA.

THE
FAMILY LIVED IN MAIDEN TOWN.

JAMES
DIED ON 21/05/1948 AND IS BURIED IN

TRARALGON CEMETARY.

LAVINIA LIVED
THE LATTER PART OF HER LIFE IN TRARALGON AT 134 GREY STREET.

and DIED ON
5/01/1969.

LESLIE ALFRED
JAMES TREMBATH

LESLIE ALFRED JAMES TREMBATH WAS
BORN TO JAMES AND FANNY TREMBATH ON 19TH MARCH 1905

AT WALHALLA.

LESLIE ATTENDED THE WALHALLA STATE
SCHOOL AND GAINED HIS MERIT CERTIFICATE.THIS
AWARD IS GRANTED AT GRADE 8 LEVEL .HIS
FAVOURITE SUBJECT WAS GEOGRAPHY.

IN HIS CHILDHOOD LESLIE HELPED HIS
FATHER AND HIS UNCLE IN THE CORNER STORE.IT
WAS LESLIE’S JOB TO DELIVER GOODS TO THE CUSTOMERS.THE SUPPLIES WERE DELIVERED BY PACKHORSE TO THEIR HOMES.LESLIE DELIVERED THE MILK BEFORE SCHOOL.MILK CANS WERE PLACED IN CHAFF BAGS WHICH WERE STRAPPED TO EACH SIDE OF
THEHORSE.MILK WOULD BE LADLED OUT TO THE CUSTOMER.

WHEN LES WAS 15 YEARS OLD HE WENT
TO LIVE WITH HIS UNCLE FRED AND AUNTIE HANNAH CHESSELL.HE WORKED AS AN APPRENTICE CARPENTER WITH THE FIRM CHITTY BROTHERS.

HE WORKED WITH HIS COUSIN HARRY
JENKIN IN THE BUILDING TRADE FOR 10 YEARS FROM 1920-1930.THEY WORKED IN COLERAINE AND RUSHWORTH IN VICTORIA.

NOT LONG AFTER THIS, LESLIE WROTE
TO HIS FATHER TELLING HIM OF THE LACK OF WORK.

AVAILABLE DUE TO THE DEPRESSION.HIS FATHER HAD IN 1929 PURCHASED A FARM IN TRARALGON AND WROTE TO LESLIE
TO COME HOME.HE RETURNED TO THE
STOCKDALE ROAD FARM AND WORKED IN GENERAL FARM DUTIES.IN 1932 LESLIE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE HANNAH.

DORIS
EMILY TREMBATH

Doris
Emily was born in Traralgon on 6th February 1917, the second daughter of Lavinia
and James Trembath.She was one of
four daughters, Evelyn, Beryl and Thelma.She
also had two stepbrothers Norman and Leslie from James’ first marriage.

Until
she was twelve years old she lived in Maidentown, Walhalla. She
often spoke of the several miles walk to school each day through mountainous
country where snakes and lyrebirds were often on the track. The corner store
which belonged to her father and Uncle Bill was the regular stop off point to
change into school shoes/boots and after school to have a snack before the long
walk home.Family life in
Maidentown was quite protected from the outside world.If a murder or tragic event occurred James would confiscate the
newspapers.

When
Doris was twelve years old the family left Maidentown and moved to a farming
property in Traralgon. While there she attended Traralgon High School where she
loved playing sport, particularly hockey. After completing her schooling at the
profiency level (Year 9) she commenced work as a shop assistant at Lleytons, a
haberdashery store in the town.

Evelyn,
her older sister, had commenced nursing training in Melbourne and encouraged
Doris to do the same.In 1937 she
took up the challenge commencing her nursing training at the Royal Melbourne
Hospital.Doris loved nursing even
though it was hard work and poorly paid. She received awards for excellence
during each year of her training.While
she was training at the Melbourne Hospital she met Lewis, her future husband.

It
was wartime and Lewis left for three years in England with the RAAF. After
corresponding over this period they were married in Traralgon on his return.

The
following year, 1943 their first daughter Judith was born. Lewis returned to
overseas service in New Guinea and Doris lived with her family in Traralgon.A second daughter, Roslyn, was born after the war in 1946.

In
1949 they moved to their own home in Pascoe Vale, a new suburb in the north of
Melbourne. Lewis, now out of the air force, commenced work at the newly
established airline, TAA, at Essendon airport. Aeroplanes frequently flew over
the home and visitors were always taken for a trip to the ‘drome’ or down to
the railway station to see “the spirit of progress’ go through on its way to
Sydney.

For
a period Doris had a third ‘daughter’ Julie, her niece who lived with the
family as an infant due to her mother, Evelyn’s ill health.Julie’s return to her own home prompted Doris’s return to nursing in
the 1950’s.She worked at
Vaucluse Hospital, Moreland in the maternity ward for approximately twenty
years. It was a very fulfilling part of her life.

As
her family grew up, married and had children her main interests outside of work
were family, especially the grandchildren, travel overseas with Lewis and the
beach house at Blairgowrie.

On
retirement Doris and Lewis shifted to Vermont South an eastern suburb of
Melbourne.They continued to enjoy
visits to the beach house and the occasional pokie trip to the Murray towns.
Gardening, knitting, cooking and sport, particularly the AFL team Carlton, were
Doris’s favourite retirement pastimes.

After
Lewis’s death in 1992 she enjoyed fellowship and trips with the Waverley war
widows and legacy groups.

Doris
died on the 27th December 1995 after a short but debilitating
illness.She was well enough to
spend a treasured Christmas with her family two days prior to this.

BERYL TREMBATH

BERYL
WAS BORN IN TRARALGON TO JAMES AND LAVINIA TREMBATH ON 12.08.1921.

SHE
HAD 2 OLDER STEPBROTHERS FROM THE MARRIAGE OF FANNY AND JAMES. FANNY DIED WHEN
NORMAN AND LESLIE WERE AGED 2 AND 4.

BERYL
HAD THREE SISTERS EVELYN, DORIS, AND THELMA.

THEY
LIVED IN MAIDENTOWN, WALHALLA UNTIL BERYL WAS 8 YEARS OLD.

BERYL
REMEMBERS THE LONG TREK TO SCHOOL EACH DAY FROM MAIDEN TOWN TO THE TOWNSHIP OF
WALHALLA. (about 1 kilometre). THE CHILDREN WOULD WALK DOWN THE STEEP HILL THEN
CHANGE SHOES BEHIND THE TREMBATH CORNER STORE.MANY STORIES HAVE BEEN TOLD OF THE ADVENTURES THAT THE CHILDREN HAD ON
THIS JOURNEY TO SCHOOL AND BACK.

SOME
DAYS THE FROST WAS SO THICK ON THE GROUND THAT THE GIRLS WOULD SIT ON THEIR
SCHOOLBAGS AND SLIDE DOWN THE STEEPER PARTS OF THE HILL.

EVERY
NIGHT THE GIRLS WOULD CALL INTO THEIR GRANDFATHERS NEAR THE ROTUNDA AND HAVE
BISCUITS AND A DRINK BEFORE STARTING THE LONG TREK BACK UP THE HILL TO HOME.

THE
FAMILY MOVED TO TRARALGON AND BROUGHT A FARM ON STOCKDALE ROAD.BERYL WORKED FOR MARG HOLT IN THE DRAPERS IN TRARALGON AND LATER WORKED
AT THE AUSTRALIAN PAPER MILL AT MARYVALE.

BERYL AND
DOUGLAS SILVESTER WITH THELMA TREMBATH AND ARTHUR SILVESTER IN 1943.

BERYL
MET DOUGLAS PHILLIP SILVESTER AND MARRIED ON 14.08.1943. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN
DAVID IAN BORN 14.07.1946 AND JENNIFER ANNE BORN 24.11.1950

THE
FAMILY LIVED WITH THE TREMBATH FAMILY IN TRARALGON, WHEN BERYL’’’S FATHER
PASSED AWAY. THEY LATER BUILT A HOUSE ON THE CORNER OF THE TREMBATH PROPERTY
WHICH IS NOW 132 GREY ST (CORNER OF STOCKDALE ROAD AND GREY ST) TRARALGON.

BERYL
WAS KEPT BUSY WITH HER FAMILY AND THE CARTAGE BUSINESS THAT THEY OWNED.

BERYL
IS STILL VERY INVOLVED WITH THE UNITING CHURCH (Methodist) AND ATTENDS CHURCH
REGULARLY.

SHE
IS ALSO AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE PROBUS CLUB.SHE SPENDS HER SPARE TIME ATTENDING THE CHURCH GROUPS, HOSPITAL CANTEENS
AND VISITING THE HOSPITALS WITH THE CHURCH.SHE STILL ENJOYS HER GARDEN ,SEWING
AND KNITTING.